Iggesund Paperboard is upgrading its folding box board Incada. It will be whiter and lighter, as well as a number of improved properties affecting printability. The new Incada can be ordered this fall, deliveries beginning in November.

Incada Exel, which is more of a specialized packaging board, will also have improved stiffness, with a gain of up to 10 to 15 per cent for grammages over 300 g/m2.

Robin Lewis, product manager for Incada, explains, “This enables our customers to reduce their packaging weights, while keeping the same protection for the contents.”

The improved stiffness has also led to a revision of Incada Exel’s grammage range to better suit the demands of the current customer base. Other distinct improvements have been made to the odour and taste properties so that Incada now comes in under the Robinson test’s detection limit of 0.6. The whiteness improvement amounts to 7.5 units on the CIE scale and most of it lies in the L value, which is critical for colour reproduction.

Runnability is also improved so that Incada can function even better in customers’ processes.

“Incada was introduced in 2001 and since then we’ve made many small quality improvements,” Lewis says. “This is a big leap forward and will definitely strengthen our market position.”

Going Green…

In addition, this last spring Iggesund changed its energy source at its mill in Workington, from fossil natural gas to biomass, which is burned in a new combined heat and power plant. Here’s a story about its opening.

Overnight, the mill eliminated its fossil carbon emissions from more than 190,000 tonnes a year to zero. The reduction is the equivalent of the annual emissions from more than 65,000 cars.